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- “You both stay here,” said Vashta, “while I try to salvage the situation
- out there, and engineer a way for you to continue your investigation!”
- “Understood, ma’am,” said Ana.
- With one last glare, Vashta turned, flung open the door, charged
- through, and slammed it behind her.
- [...]
- To my surprise, her grin didn’t flicker one jot. “That’s not entirely true,
- either.”
- “What’s not? That it was the Hazas, or that your assistant was killed?”
- “Focus, Din. We are here to figure out how this calamity happened and
- who is responsible. Follow that thread, and that thread alone, and we shall
- have victory.” Then she cocked her head, knelt, and felt the fretvine floor.
- “Vashta is coming back. I can feel her stride in the very wood… And I think
- Miljin and Strovi are with her. Come. Let us pretend to be professional, you
- and I, for hell and the gentry await.”
- “HERE,” SAID VASHTA coldly, “is what I have been able to salvage. First,
- Fayazi Haza does not wish to be in the room with you anymore, Immunis.
- To have made such an attack on her character during such a period of grief
- is beyond toleration. Is that clear?”
- Ana shrugged. “That is clear if not welcome, ma’am.”
- - The Tainted Cup, Chapter 25 pgs. 219 & 222
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